Etymologies

(American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Latin patricida. (Wiktionary)

Examples

Here in Confucian Korea, where in a classroom gasps of horror are heard when I lead university students to figure out what the word "patricide" means, the idea that adult children have an "obligation to care for elderly parents" is simply a given, although it is sometimes transgressed.

Thus, whilst it seems that Anthony Hamilton has been the primary mover in orchestrating Dennis's withdrawal, there remains a sense in which Lewis seems to have committed an act of professional patricide.

From matricide to patricide, as boring turncoat alien Ryan sneaks back on the ship to fetch his rapidly maturing hybrid daughter Amy, but is instead killed presumably when Amy wraps her own tail around dad's neck, revealing her allegiance to surrogate mommy Anna.

But whatever was compelling about the song before seems more so after we are informed here that Mr. Morrison really did compose "The End," which builds to a screamed fantasy of patricide and maternal incest, "after a breakup with a girl he liked."